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News Report Issue
38
Index
1. Thoughts for the day - Neil
2. Opinion: Pinocchio Howard - Look who's nose is
getting longer - Antonia
3. Opinion: Australia's Strong Economy - Antonia
4. Opinion: The Black Economy - Antonia
5. Opinion: ALP - As much brains as a cake of soap -
Antonia
6. Opinion: Salmon farmers woes - Antonia
7. Life Sciences: GMF: Pillaging the dead & other
issues - Forwarded by Veronica
8. Feedback: - Regional Forestry Agreements - Glen
9. Feedback: - How America Swallows the Israeli Line - Forwarded
by Jack
10. Feedback: - Explosive Communications Method - Wayne
11. Feedback: - Australia Inc & Ali Baba's 40 Thieves -
Tony
12. Feedback: - "Worri bilong yu" by Peter
13. Meetings: - Inverell Forum
14. Feedback Contacts:
15. Editorial Policy:
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Thought for the day:
"When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a
communist." Dom Helder Camera
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thought for the day:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret
Mead +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pinocchio Howard.
Look who's nose is getting longer!
In a radio interview, prime minister John Howard was asked how committed his government was to keeping manufacturing industries such as textiles, given the level playing field policy. (ABC Radio 2 BL, 23/2/00). Incredibly, he denied there was such a policy. Here are his exact words, "We haven't had a committed policy of level playing field. We've had a committed policy of freer trade and . . ." In the next breath, while extolling the benefits of 'freer' trade, he said, "... we are committed to keeping all industries in this country ..." And longer! When the interviewer asked about the textiles industry, Howard hedged saying, "I mean we are, within the realism of what can be done." As kids these days say derisively, "Weaner!" Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Australia's 'strong'
economy
According to our Pinocchio PM, the governments task is to "provide a strong economy, low inflation, low interest rates, better taxation system, good industrial relations. Now, we have done that in spades."(Same interview) Yes, that's true. The economy is run purely for the benefit of investors, increasingly foreign. The "better taxation system" will extract more money from the people. And the "good industrial system" has reduced the wages and conditions of workers - with Kelty's compliance. Oh, and by the way, it looks like the textile, clothing and footwear industry and the car industry will probably peter close out in 2005. That's when the current protection ends. So we can look forward to even more unemployment in Australia's 'strong' economy. Ps. Kelty has a new job on the board of Lindsay Fox's company Linfox. Apparently the pay is a lot better than his ACTU salary which "struggled" to reach $70,000. Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The black economy
Well guess what? An economist at the University of Technology in Sydney has found that the black economy is larger than previously thought - about $100 billion he estimates. That's a lot of money. The black or cash economy covers a range of activity from moonlighting in a second job and business cheating, to barter. For many Asian and Middle Eastern people, tax dodging is a point of honour, though they're simultaneously keen on making use of government services, which is rather naughty of them. This is not a groundless allegation. Referring to ethnic crime, the NSW Police Commissioner said, "...every conceivable rort and deception is used to beat the system. Medicare rorts, dealing in prescription drugs, obtaining multiple identity papers, milking the social security system, even stealing electricity." (Paul Sheehan, Among the Barbarians, quote introducing part three). And Dr Richard Basham, an authority on the links between crime and ethnicity, deplores the routine censorship that suppresses debate. As we saw with Pauline, anybody raising such matters is called a 'racist'. Basham said, "Common violations of Australian law, such as tax evasion, immigration abuse and money laundering are often not really regarded as criminal at all. This extends to bonded servitude which is found in China, Thailand, Cambodia and Burma. (Sheehan, p.182). And now in Australia. Treasury is hoping the GST will catch the people in the cash economy. That just goes to show what fools they are. Everybody knows the cash economy booms after the introduction of a GST because it is mutually beneficial to buyers and sellers. How many people mowing lawns or other weekend work are going to remit a GST to the government? Antonia
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Soap
The ALP's new Workforce 2010 policy on jobs shows that party is no alternative government. It has as much imagination as a cake of soap. Instead of presenting an alternative policy of getting Australia back to work, it just patches over the mess created by the present policies. Clearly it intends to continue with current economic policies if it wins government. Instead of getting sacked skilled workers back into manufacturing jobs according such plans as that of the National Civic Council, the Labor Party's policy is to retrain them, especially those over 40, with the skills to enter the "new economy". In plain English this means turning toolmakers into waiters. No, come to think of it, a cake of soap has more imagination than the ALP. Antonia
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Just heard on the ABC Country Hour that the Sheepmeets Council of Australia has urged the Tasmanian salmon farmers to abide by the WTO ruling and open their market to the Canadians. While sympathetic to the quarantine issues facing the Tassie farmers with the importing of Canadian salmon, the sheep farmers are afraid that Canada will slap punitive retaliatory tariffs on Australian lamb as allowed under WTO rules. Seeing as they're already suffering from US retaliation they can't afford to lose any more markets Lovely isn't it, this brave new world of enforced trade. Well it's certainly not "free". It's push and shove and tit for tat. Not only are nations in competition with one another, industries within a country are leaning on each other. Once all Australian primary producers valued and respected one another. All gone in this dog eat dog society. Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Life Sciences:
As Monsanto is merging with the pharmaceutical group Pharmacia &
UpJohn, one might wonder what Pharmacia & UpJohn is up to:
TNC-Pharmacia&UpJohn in payment for organs scandal, Irish
Times February 10, 2000
"Pharmaceutical firm confirms it got glands" By Eamon Timmins A pharmaceutical company, Pharmacia & Upjohn, confirmed last night that it had removed glands from dead children and adults in Irish hospitals for 11 years, until 1985. The practice of removing pituitary glands came to light as part of an investigation into organ removal and retention procedures at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin. The multinational firm confirmed yesterday that the glands
were provided by a number of hospitals in Ireland between 1974
and 1985, and it did not confine its search to children's glands.
Then called Kabi Vitrum, the company used the pituitary glands to produce a growth hormone for children of short stature. They were flown by the firm to its parent company in Sweden, which processed them to manufacture the drug, which was then sold globally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POOR ROUNDUP-READY SOYA PERFORMANCE AND VARIETAL PURITY PROBLEMS CONTINUE "I have spent the last several weeks reviewing as much
varietal information as I could find. Consistency is a factor I emphasise, and
it should be a major criteria as you formulate your selections...
After 3 years of large-scaled planting of Roundup Ready varieties, a lot of mixed thinking still exists. Although some good varieties are available, Roundup Ready varieties, as a whole, have been more variable in yield and disease reactions; key in on consistency..... The U.S. farmer may find that he or she is at a serious disadvantage when [harvested crop GM/NON-GM]segregation begins. After what I have seen over the last 3 years in the area of quality control and mass production of many new varieties, it would not surprise me if many conventional lines are mixed with Roundup Ready seed. This is not the grower's fault, not the end-purchaser's fault, but an overall disregard for high-quality seed production. " Dr. Alan Blaine
January 11, 2000, agronomy notes Mississippi State University Extension Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two articles in the recent fortune mag (Feb 21) Is Monsanto's biotech worth less than a hill of beans? http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/2000/02/21/bio.html "The Voice of Reason in the Global Food Fight," - Gordon Conway, Rockefeller Foundation http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/2000/02/21/bio3.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Food Labelling
Environmentalists Applaud Move by Sen. Boxer to Seek
Genetically Engineered Food Labelling February 23, 2000
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation - U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation that would require labelling of genetically engineered (GE) foods on supermarket shelves. The legislation affects foods with genetically engineered ingredients, or foods processed with genetically engineered material. Popular products that would likely require labelling include Frosted Flakes (GE corn), Coca-Cola (GE corn syrup), Hershey's chocolate (GE soy used in lecithin), Heinz ketchup (GE tomatoes, GE corn syrup). "Sen. Boxer just gave voice to over 30 million more Americans who want to know if the food they are eating has been manipulated," said Larry Bohlen, director of Friends of the Earth's Safer Food-Safer Farms Campaign. "As long as this stuff is on the shelf, citizens should be able to choose whether or not they want to promote bio-pollution like genetically engineered corn." The Boxer legislation is similar to labelling legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in November 1999. The Kucinich legislation now has more than 40 co-sponsors. Other Congressional action has included a letter to the FDA by 49 House members led by Rep. David Bonior (D-Wis.) in October calling the failure of FDA to require labelling an "important food safety and consumer protection matter." Their letter stated that the "current FDA policy regarding genetically engineered or modified food is flawed." The Boxer bill introduction comes just as the FDA is planning to release its decision on labelling and safety testing of genetically engineered foods after a series of field hearings in November and December. A diverse, nation-wide set of organisations including religious, farm groups, consumer groups, and environmentalists has emerged to call for labelling and safety testing of GE foods. For more information on the Safer Food-Safer Farms campaign, go to www.foe.org/safefood ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Animal & Human Cloning When scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland
brought Dolly the sheep into the world, alarms went off about human
cloning. Scientists have sought to reassure the public that their
revolutionary techniques could have enormous benefits for medicine.
Now, as the first patents are handed out, fresh controversy is
brewing.
<http://www.lrs.co.uk> EcoWatch/London Radio Service (4:24) Full Story: <http://www.enn.com/enn-multimedia-archive/2000/02/02232000/lrs_10321.asp> Articles Forwarded by Veronica Griffin Ph.D..
Kerawa Qld.
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Feedback:
Echelon
A report to the European Parliament's Committee for Justice and Home Affairs compiled by independent Scottish investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, includes allegations that sensitive commercial information gathered through Echelon meant the French company Thomson lost a radar contract in Brazil, and the European Airbus consortium lost out to the US's Boeing in competition for a $6 bn aircraft contract. German Christian Democratic Euro-MP Christian Von Boetticher told reporters he estimated the economic cost of the spying to European business to be 20 billion euros ($20bn) per annum. Mr Campbell alleged that national security agencies were using several major US corporations to aid their interception of data capabilities. He named Microsoft, IBM and a certain "large American microchip maker" . . . Echelon's existence was only recently confirmed by the US Government . . . Most of installations are in the US and UK, but the report also states that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are partners in the operation. Is this why Uncle Sam tried so hard to outlaw encryption? Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_654000/654394.stm AGS
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For those unaware, the echelon system was
developed as part of the UKUSA agreement signed during the last world
war which still regulates all information sharing between the security
agencies of the 5 anglosaxon nations (USA, UK, Australia, Canada & New
Zealand).
As far as I am aware, all telex, telegrams, facsimile, email,
phone, radio, TV information is screened worldwide through sophisticated
computer facilities maintained on all continents or capable of looking
into continents without friendly partners. Communications are screened against
noted "dictionaries - Maintained by each of the 5 nations and global
ones as well" to find words or phrases which trigger that communication
to be lifted out of the ether for further analysis, either nationally or at the
USA's NSA HQ in Maryland or Britains GCHQ at Cheltenham.
In Australia facilities include, but surely are not limited
to, Pine Gap & Shoalwater Bay etc.
For a long time many countries / companies, especially in
Europe, have considered that these facilities give multinationals based
in UK and USA an unfair commercial advantage to the extent that this
information on top secret corporate activity is shared in "real time" by the
intelligence monitioring agency with competitors of the European nations /
companies located in either UK or USA. Only once or twice has it been known to
back fire.
The most notable occasion I am aware of is when the Canadians
fed dummy price data into an unsecure communication on some massive grain tender
contract, and the American competitors fed this incorrect information from their
monitoring security establishment, bid too high for the tender and the Canadians
won. So if you are aware the game is being played, and if the
stakes are high enough, one can turn this to ones advantage,
but for most this is just another example of "Big Brother", being
omniprescient.
Neil
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Feedback:
Regional Forest Agreements
Resources and Conservation Division
Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
GPO Box 3927
Sydney 2001
Fax: 9228 4967
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A proposal for a regional forest agreement for
Southern NSW
I object to the proposal document on the following grounds:
1. Inadequate Provision For Public Comment The Southern Region Regional Forest Forum has gone on record as saying that the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) should "..be built on an open, transparent and consultative process" The Proposal is virtually incomprehensible without a considerable amount of support documentation; documentation which is not readily available to the general public and which the NPWS appears to be trying to conceal. Given the short period allowed for submissions (28 January to 25 February), informed public comment is impossible. Under these circumstances the consultative process must be seen as a sham. 2. The Proposal, Based On A Flawed Reservation Process A basic premise of the Proposal is to reserve land within the Southern Region so as to protect 15% of a range of ecosystems assumed to have existed in 1750. For a start this is a meaningless concept, simply given the changes to the environment due to the cessation of Aboriginal low intensity burning practices, let alone changes due to farming, timber getting and urban development. Whilst I agree with 15% of the Region being set aside in National Parks, 15% should mean 15%, not 25% or 30%. National Parks alone total 51% of the public lands in the region or 23% of the total area. The effect of the proposal would be to tie up between 28% and 31% in National Parks. That it is not possible for the NPWS to have met its reservation targets without exceeding the 15% is testimony to the fact that the reservation process is deeply flawed. To rectify this situation I propose that the reservation process be brought under the umbrella of the Environment Planning and Assessment Act. I further propose that national park boundaries in the region be re-drawn so that the ecosystem reservation targets are met within the 15% criteria and the balance of the area currently reserved in National Parks (8%) be made available for agriculture, forestry, recreation and tourism. 3. Economic Impact The region is already economically depressed. The Proposal will decimate the timber industry in the region and the declaration of Wilderness areas, which will surely follow the adoption of the Proposal, will do the same for tourism and for agriculture. Wilderness declarations will reduce farm production and farm values. The Proposal makes a mockery of claims that governments are doing something positive for Rural Australia. In truth the Proposal is more designed to give the Urban Radical Greens and the Balmain Basket Weavers a warm fuzzy feeling and dam the bush. Yours faithfully, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anyone who would like to support the views in this draft letter
should email support to:-
Neil
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Feedback:
"How America swallows the Israelis' lies", By Robert
Fisk, 14 February 2000
Israel is losing its military struggle against Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, but winning its propaganda war on the conflict in the outside world. Although its aircraft bombed three Lebanese power stations last week after guerrillas killed six occupation soldiers, Western press and television reports almost unanimously portrayed the latest violence in Lebanon as a war by Israel in defence of its civilians on the other side of the frontier. In fact, no Israeli civilians were attacked, let alone hurt, and all the Israeli soldiers who died were inside their occupation zone in Lebanon. Journalists based in the Middle East say Israeli diplomats have mounted a letter-writing campaign to their editors especially in the United States in an attempt to explain away the latest war as a response to "terrorism" while failing to mention that the Israeli casualties occurred in Lebanon, not in Israel. On the BBC, Moshe Fogel, Israel's official spokesman, tried to justify the Israeli raids on Lebanon's power stations a clear breach of the April 1996 ceasefire agreement on the basis that "Hizbollah terrorists are attacking our soldiers and civilians". But no Israeli civilians had been attacked in the violence leading to the air raids and Mr Fogel failed to mention that the soldiers to whom he referred had been killed in their military positions inside Southern Lebanon. The only civilians to be wounded were Lebanese, 17 of whom were hurt in the Israeli bombings. But subsequent BBC World Service news reports frequently referred to "the killing of six Israeli soldiers" without mentioning they had died in Lebanon. Typical of the coverage was a report in The Washington Post whose Jerusalem correspondent referred in an article to what he called "Israel's two-decade old intervention in Lebanon". Far from being an "intervention" ironically, this was the very word the Soviet Union used when it invaded Afghanistan in 1980's, Israel has twice invaded Lebanon and has occupied part of it in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 for 23 years. In The Independent's "Right of Reply" column last Friday, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Dror Zeigerman, also attempted to justify the Israeli raids on the basis of "terrorist activities against Israel across the border" and failed to mention that the six Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon. He said that the Hizbollah attacks were launched from "civilian villages" and were "a flagrant violation of previous understandings". In reality, several of the Israeli dead were killed by roadside bombs primed and exploded inside Israel's own occupation zone. And on Friday, Timur Goksel, the special adviser to the United Nations force commander in Southern Lebanon, stated publicly that the Hizbollah "has not really violated the April [1996] accords". According to the UN, the Hizbollah has carried out 300 attacks on Israeli occupation troops in December, 250 in January and at least 60 so far this month. Since 1996, the Hizbollah has fired Katyusha rockets across the Lebanese-Israeli border, but almost always in retaliation for the Israeli wounding of Lebanese civilians. The 1996 ceasefire accord states that the guerrillas and Israeli troops may assault each other's forces inside Lebanon, but must not attack civilian targets or use civilians as cover. In all the reporting of last week's violence in southern Lebanon, no mention was made of the 1,000 strong force Israel keeps in the occupied zone or of the notorious Khiam jail there in which as Amnesty International and other human-rights groups have protested men and women prisoners are routinely tortured with electricity. When the United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, was asked to comment on the war, she contented herself with a reference to the Hizbollah as "enemies of peace". Only in Israel, it seems, are there journalists brave enough to tell the truth about Southern Lebanon. Among the most eloquent is the novelist David Grossman who wrote in Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper that Israel should "evacuate the outposts, bring the soldiers home" and redeploy across the border. "Go. Learn to live with the insult, swallow the empty pride, stop feeding the fire of our lingering, pitiful arrogance with more and more of our young soldiers. We have lost. It's OK to say it aloud, no one dies from saying it... " You would not have found an American reporter daring to say that last week. Forwarded by
Jack Manasserian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Feedback:
Explosive Communications Method
Many thanks to both you and Antonia for such great
commentary. I don't know where you get the time and energy to do the reading and
emails, but what an explosive method it has turned out to be. I
download your reports and print them out each day, I don't always read them on
the day so I wait till the week end. I will endeavour to disseminate you
commentary both by email and by hard copies. Thank all of the people
who are sending in information. As many hands make light work, many
minds do the same. There is only a finite amount of information one
person can collect and absorb, but with a method such as yours people
can achieve the un-achievable.
I am very busy with work, family and I am now doing a three year course in Programming. Also HTML code for Web site creation. This will lead to an interesting future! I have an idea to write a programme for forecasting election results using algorithms and electoral information from previous elections. With the right sort of application the system could be a fair indicator of an election result based on info before the event. Would it not be beneficial to have some sort of idea as to the outcome of an election before it took place. I will give it a bit of thought over the next year or so. Keep up the great work
Regards Wayne.
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Australia Inc. & Ali Baba's 40 (or is it 148 less
1) Thieves
Party politicians and banks are conspiring to defraud the people of Australia and the end result is killing our children. In a series of essays I have proved that this is the case. The tragedy of people who believe the lies party politicians utter is that faith rules their intellect. For the most part politicians cause death and destruction. Thanks to them Australia is a rotten place. In the last 27 years they have created an Australian hell inhabited by tormented souls and devils. The political party faithful should take a good long look at what is happening to our society. It is being destroyed by thieves and rogues who call themselves "The Right Honourable...".
Believers should ask themselves why do politicians do
nothing to make Australia a better place for all of us. Why
do politicians offer nothing to homeless families and homeless people - some 250
thousand. Why do they give banks billions of taxpayer dollars in interest
payments to house our poor welfare recipients.
Believers should understand that nothing will ever change unless we expose party politicians for what they are. By offering no salvation to street kids, they are complicit in allowing our children to be exposed to the predators, who are dealing death and destruction to our kids. Violence can be manifested in many guises (MY favourite expression!) and party politicians who neglect the well-being of those they are supposed to protect are guilty of a crime of the highest order. Their behaviour is an example of the depths of human cruelty politicians can sink to. In fact their crime is unforgivable. The problem for ordinary people is that politicians think they own this country - just because they suck its life blood. And you, Mr Howard, have played a major part in the destruction of one million two-parent families since 1975. Your megalomaniacal pursuit of introducing a GST at any cost will destroy another million or two. Tony Lee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Feedback:
"Worri bilong yu"
ANTONIA - NEIL:
Len Clampett - Our home is not our castle - remember the justifications these pissants use - "If it will save just one life" - "For the common good" - "for public health and safety". Best said by a German Lutheran Pastor - Martin
Niemoller, who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937.
"First they came for the criminals and the mentally insane. As it did not effect me I did nothing. Then they came for the Gypsies. I was not one of them, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Jews. I did nothing. Then they came for me! And no one was
left to help me"
Our liberties, and minds are being stolen by those who know better - what is utterly amazing is that people let it happen. Difficult at least I have with that is - I am not a mindless twit, nor am I a sheep, but am sucked into the mire by fools who deserve being controlled. Best said in your quotation of Wednesday: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." "Truth" surfaces after the lies are exposed, by which time people are hurt - deservedly so it seems. ANTONIA - Your postings further reinforce that Australia is being class divided, measured by money, and promoted by government. It is no wonder government seeks to remove the capacity for people to retaliate - but that is justified by present processes currently underway in Vienna. Ask your Attorney General - he will tell you what is going on surely!! What he won't tell you - I can. More on 'WHITE OUT" - PNG just suffered it's worst 'outage' of it's internet links. For a full 2 days, PNG was cut off - WHY? The answer is typical and predictable - in the words of a major Provider in PNG "Telecom did not pay their bill to AAPT (Sydney) so they chopped the Internet link off to the whole country .!!!! Unbelievable." NO - Not unbelievable - TYPICAL!! Be warned businesses
who intend dealing with PNG - as I know only too well - the behaviour is
TYPICAL. Often, money becomes simply - "lost", and that includes YOUR aid money
- and not small sums either. Demand 100% money up front - or in their own words
"worri bilong yu".
Peter Cunningham
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Meeting: The Inverell Forum. Now in
its 12th
Year.
WHEN: 11 / 12 March 2000 WHERE: Inverell - 8 hrs drive north of Sydney CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 02 67232351 AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!! Please Note: Antonia Feitz is a guest speaker at the
Forum. Neil is also planning to attend. So if you want to catch up with the two
of us who are putting out the News Report, you can do so
there.
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important. Comments on articles read would be of value. Do you agree / disagree?
Can you add more or a different perspective. Your contributions are greatly
appreciated.
Send this email on to as many as you
can. The more that read it the merrier. In time email communication
will make government censorship impractical and the newspapers will have to
start reporting it as it really is, rather than the smoke and mirrors tricks
they currently indulge in, or loose readership, and therefore advertising
monies. While we have a long way to go before that happens, each epic
journey must start with a single step.
Antonia Feitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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